Big Bang Theory and the Dungeon Master's Guide

[Herobizkit]

After the WoW episode, "Guys teach Penny to play D&D" would be hilarious.

There was a WoW episode?! Now I'm intrigued.

Does the show take the geek stereotype too far, or is actually a light-hearted jab at geeks in general?

 

[Hand of Evil]

It was on the GenCon site and someone was trying to get the cast for GoH and someone else mentioned that they could film an episode during GenCon. Now that would be cool!

 

[JDragon]

There was a WoW episode?! Now I'm intrigued.

Does the show take the geek stereotype too far, or is actually a light-hearted jab at geeks in general?

I would say 99% of it is a light-hearted jab vs the attacking garbage you see on some shows.

My wife found it part way through this season and then spent 3 weeks catching up on S1, S2 and the first part of S3.

Shes not a gamer or a geek, but after dealing with me and my friends for 12+ years she gets a lot of it and understands were Penny is coming from on a lot of things from personal experience.

I did not catch the DMG, but will have to look for it. An actual D&D episode would be cool.

My only complaint was with the Paintball scenes where they are shooting at each other with out masks on. Just sets a bad safety example for people.

JD

 

[Edgewood]

My wife and I adore this show. My wife isn't a gamer either but she understands my idiosyncratic behaviour and gets Penny's point of view. The scene where she is brought to the comic book store for the first time is priceless because that's pretty much what happened with my wife each time I took her.
The show itself does have a tendency to be somewhat Sheldon-centric and seems to short change the focus on the other characters at times.

 

[Tonguez]

There was a WoW episode?! Now I'm intrigued.

Does the show take the geek stereotype too far, or is actually a light-hearted jab at geeks in general?

Its a good show, one of the few good lite sitcoms coming out of the US since Sledge Hammer. It has a lot of geek in jokes that geeks will appreciate

Sheldon does very much steal the show as the aspergers boy however

 

[wedgeski]

I would say 99% of it is a light-hearted jab vs the attacking garbage you see on some shows.

?? The show *celebrates* geeks. It revels in it. It's no more a jab at geeks than Friends was a jab at twenty-something singles.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

I would say that I enjoy the show. All four guys are very successful in their fields. It does have the problem that they unrealistically portray graduate students as if they were undergrads and they seem to have a problem with writing dialogue for nerdy females.

I don't know, Sheldon as a striker, then again when he goes all out on his attack I bet he says "Bazinga!" Then Leonard is probably the Wizard and Raj a Defender type.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

After the WoW episode, "Guys teach Penny to play D&D" would be hilarious.

I have been posting everywhere, since season one of this show, that WotC/Hasbro should pay for some nice product placement here.

Maybe using the new D&D Essentials line so that fans of the show can go and buy it


edit: And yes, the only bad thing about this show so far is the laugh track (even if its generated by a studio audience)

 

[TerraDave]

incredibly loud canned laughter every 3-4 seconds after anyone said anything - funny or not - made me switch channel pretty quickly! I know canned laughter is part and parcel of these US sitcom things, but I never got assaulted by it to quite tha degree in Friends! .

Its less common now. Both as sitcoms are less common on TV, and some sitcoms--like the US version of the Office--don't have it.

 

[Danzauker]

BBT is one of the few sitcoms I can say I've seen every episode of, the other one being Happy Days.

I think is one of the rare series where every character/actor couple is just... perfect.

It's also maybe the only one where the geek stereotypes, while of course exaggerated for comedy, are fairly real. It's easy for everybody to get a geek reference or at least know someone that acts just like Raj, or Howard, or Leonard...

My GF is absoulutely out of the geek subculture. Does not know what a Dungeon is or what a Green Lantern is. Still she loves the show a lot! And most of the people I lent them the show do the same.